Holy Scripture
Ezekiel 3:4
A church father on this verse
“What does that show, if not that God was speaking through the prophet? Now it is we clergy who were above all terrified by the prophet's words, that is, the leaders whom God appointed to speak to his people, and so we begin by seeing our own faces in those words. For as the reader intoned them we had a kind of mirror…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4And he said to me, Son of man, go thy way, and go in to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.
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In context
2So he opened my mouth, and caused me to eat the volume. And he said to me, Son of man,
3thy mouth shall eat, and thy belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to thee. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet honey.
— Ezekiel 3:4 —
5For thou art not sent to a people of hard speech, but to the house of Israel;
6neither to many nations of other speech and other tongues, nor of harsh language, whose words thou wouldest not understand: although if I had sent thee to such, they would have hearkened to thee.